The Hague, Sep 4 (DPA) Over 100 Dutch troops have been deployed to assist Canadian forces in Afghanistan's Kandahar province for a major operation, the defence ministry said here Monday.

The troops have been redeployed from the neighbouring province of Uruzgan, where a Dutch force is engaged in reconstruction under the aegis of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

The 100 troops would man a post on the route between Kandahar city and Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan, the ministry said.

The redeployment has stirred controversy in the Netherlands, with some members of parliament saying approval had been given for deployment only in Uruzgan.